"I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me."
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"I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television."
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"I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association."
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"At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl."
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"The Psalter is the great school of prayer."
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"When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school."
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"I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed."
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"My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school."
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"So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write."
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"A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me."
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"If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school."
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"I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him."
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"What we look for in the school is unrealized potential."
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"I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams."
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"In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented."
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"I wish I wasn't famous. I wish I was still in school So that I could have you in my dorm room, how I'd put it on you"
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"I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going to take that city by storm and it taught me a lot; it was like the school of life. For me, it was like a series of really hilarious experiences in New York with getting jobs and getting fired."
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"He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass."
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"I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School."
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"There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in our society. Last Fall, for example, 91 percent of the Indian children between the ages of 6 and 18 on reservations were enrolled in school. This is a rise of 12 percent since 1953."
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